“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”― Maya Angelo

Thoughts from my creative, scattered (sometimes pervy) mind.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Audiobooks on the cheap?

I’m an audiobook
devote. I work with numbers most of the day, so I can easily put in headphones
and process medical claims and balance the bank accounts, all while listening
to a book.

I like to read…and do
feel audiobooks give you a different experience, but love being about to
transport myself to a different place while I’m doing mundane things like
bookkeeping, driving or doing the dishes.

There’s two major
downfalls to audio books…

The first is
narration. Sometimes a narration can ruin a book.If a narrator changes in the middle of a
series it can ruin the book for you (Ghost Story…I missed you Marsters L you can narrate for me any day, just saying.)

The other is
Price.Audiobooks are just as expensive
as hard back books.Going for $23 to $30
or more.Even with a subscription to
audible you’re still looking at $14 to $13 dollars a book, and this can be hard
to justify when you can get a lot of ebook now for $6.99 or cheaper. (even the
popular authors are around $9.99)

Amazon has been doing
this Whisper-Sync for a while now.Get
the ebook with the audio and you can pick up right where the narration left
off, or right were you stopped reading.Have to go get the kids…no problem just pop in the earphones and you
don’t have to leave you book behind/

Well last night I
discovered something odd.For some books
it’s actually cheaper to get the ebook AND the audio book together.

Amazon is encouraging
you to get the audiobook when you by the kindle version by discounting
it.A LOT!